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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | | 5:46 pm |
| | Monday, June 22nd, 2009 | | 11:11 pm |
_Transformers 2_ SPOILERS
For what it's worth, I think the newest live-action _Transformers_ movie is about as good as the first one ...if you're into that sort of thing, and most of the time I am. Michael Bay doesn't have a subtle bone in his body ...but he does have a sense of humor, at least. Random thoughts from the screening follow. ( Read more... ) | | Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | | 7:46 pm |
| | Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | | 12:19 pm |
Spoilers for _Up_, sorta...
If Pixar wants to continue their tradition of providing "outtakes" from their animated movies, I'd be more than a little amused if I found the following on the DVD extras for _Up_: ( Read more... ) | | Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 | | 7:15 pm |
[Spinal Tap] * 2, and guitar furniture
For the first spinal tap story, we have the results of the lumbar puncture done to greenlight Rachal for her eye surgery. (Her eyes are still pointing away from each other, to about the same degree). The lumbar puncture showed that her spinal fluid pressure was not high ...but analysis of the spinal fluid itself was suggestive of ...wait for it... multiple sclerosis. Let me rush to say that it's unlikely she has MS, and if she does it's likely a low-grade version ...and even then, that would give us another potentially productive list of things to do, as opposed to having some symptoms for which (right now) we have no real source. So it's not entirely bad news any way I look at it, except for the part where Rachal's eye surgery is indefinitely postponed until she's diagnosed one way or the other. The second story is more amusing -- and reminded me of _Spinal Tap_, the movie. I recently ordered some white vinyl cut in the shape of my company's logo -- one set, two feet wide, to fit on our door ...the other, three feet wide, to fit on our front window. The salesdroid I spoke to invoiced me correctly, and was told to proceed. Yesterday, I got a UPS letter envelope, with some wax paper rolled up inside. Taped to that was two sets of my company's logo ...one two inches wide, and one three inches wide. I think they'll fit nicely on my boss's dog-carrier. Also, I spent a few hours over the weekend (when I wasn't at the office) helping a buddy (and ex-boss) flog his wares at a booth in the Dallas Guitar Show. He's trying to start a line of high-end wooden furniture for use by professional musicians, and you may take a gander at his pride and joy here: www.guitarfurniture.com That guitar stand's disassembly is pretty slick, and I don't wanna know how many times I took it apart and put it back together Saturday, all in the name of catching the eyes of the folks wandering through the show. I resisted the urge to throw my hands in the air and shout "Time!" on each repetition, at least. Well, mostly. | | Friday, March 27th, 2009 | | 6:12 am |
Fentanyl patch, and commercial
Rachal's pain doc recently prescribed a fentanyl patch for her, and so far we're very impressed. Since she put it on, she's had long stretches of time where on the 1-10 pain scale, she registers ...zero. This is an unusual feeling for her, and she's recalibrating :> Also, fentanyl does not seem (so far) to make her as fuzzy-headed as hydromorphone appears to, but it may work so well only because it's still new and shiny. We'll wait till she's been on it a while longer and see if her body responds less dramatically to it. In other news, I got a commercial for my job broadcast on a local station -- 98.7 allows you to phone in and talk about your company for forty-five seconds, and if you're sufficiently coherent, they play it on the air. I heard them laughing at mine while I recorded it, and they were amused enough that they left in my closing "....aaaaaaannnnnd SCENE", which I didn't expect. It's been almost twenty-four hours since it aired, and the total number of calls has been ...one. (From a company in a related field, who wants to sell us *their* services). Current Music: Rachal snorin' | | Saturday, February 28th, 2009 | | 12:41 pm |
Five things about me (meme)
I asked ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) twfarlan to list five things he associates with me, which I shall bloviate about below. Let me know, Gentle Reader, if you want me to give you five topics that remind me of you to expound upon in your own journal. ( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | | 8:32 am |
Cats
Saw most of the stage play "Cats" last night, at the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth. The seats were better than I expected, given their source. [rabbithole] It was a good show, right up to the point where someone in the top balcony broke out a laser pointer, and then all hell broke loose. By the time most of the cast had chased the red dot from one corner of the stage to another, and been made to run in *circlecirclecircles* that left Jennyanydots and Bustopher Jones in the orchestra pit, the set was wrecked and the script was abandoned. Rumpleteazer called out that she thought it was Macavity with the laser pointer, but by the time security reached the balcony, he wasn't, you know, there. [/rabbithole] ...Actually, while the floor plan at Bass is a little weird, at least the sound system is better than Fair Park's. | | Monday, January 26th, 2009 | | 5:35 am |
Rachal at RHD hospital
I'm posting this more for the record than to put up the CEPT bat-signal, or anything. Rachal was so nauseous going into Saturday that she couldn't keep anything down, and she therefore couldn't stop her blood sugar from dropping. We took her to the ER for some IV assistance, and she's been there for the last two nights, sleeping a lot. (They put her on an antibiotic. She's been on Enbrel for about a year for her psoriasis and arthritis, and Enbrel reduces the effectiveness of her immune system). She hasn't been in any danger that I'm aware of, and has been a lot more comfortable since about two hours after we checked her in. So I'm not worried, and should be bringing her home today. On the plus side, Rachal's insurance deductible for the year has been well and truly addressed, and it ain't even Valentine's day! Woo-hoo; all-we-can-eat recreational hospital visits for the rest of the year! Or something... :/ | | Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 | | 10:12 pm |
| | Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 | | 12:22 pm |
Inauguration
I got a kick out of the look on Yo-Yo Ma's face while he was playing. Grinning from ear to ear, he was. I'm thinking about making another LJ icon, with some picture of Barack Obama looking the most like Sidney Poitier that I can find, and the caption: "They call me *Mister President*!" | | Monday, January 5th, 2009 | | 8:26 pm |
| | Saturday, December 20th, 2008 | | 8:14 pm |
Card counting
As expected, I did not win the $10,000 shopping spree. This did not prevent me from calling my mother-in-law and breathlessly chirping, "You won't believe what I'm doing *right now*! I'm ... going home empty-handed!" The single person whose name got drawn from the walk-ups and dropped in with us semi-finalists was also drawn as one of the final five ...so I was rooting for her, just out of a general desire to see the underdog win out. A different one of the five finalists got it, however, so we went away... after using up one of my corollary semi-finalist prizes buying frozen yogurt on the way out. (The last corollary prize -- tickets to look at the model train display which Northpark sets up every year -- will be used sometime in the next week or two. Probably). And, because I've had a few people ask me about it, here's my list of suggestions on how to play radio contests. Hopefully, many of these are blindingly obvious, but several wouldn't have occurred to me before I bumped my nose learning them. Guidelines for playing radio contests: ( Read more... ) | | Friday, December 19th, 2008 | | 6:58 am |
| | Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 | | 8:07 pm |
| | Thursday, October 30th, 2008 | | 12:21 pm |
| | Monday, October 27th, 2008 | | 11:44 am |
Note to Rush Limbaugh...
Mr Limbaugh: Regarding the phrase "negative liberties" ... I don't think it means what you think it means. Regards, Rick | | Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | | 7:33 am |
Fonts
I'd pay cash if someone came up with a font search engine that took the scanning ability of www.whatthefont.com, the Q&A tree of www.identifont.com ...and the node mapping of www.visualthesaurus.com. That is all. | | Sunday, October 12th, 2008 | | 9:22 am |
Meds, work, and a dash of politics
Rachal's got a nerve block scheduled for Monday morning. This should reduce the frequency of her migraines, which may in turn reduce the number of pressure headaches I think the migraines trigger. On the other half of that cycle, we're not sure how well the tinkering with her shunt is reducing the number of spontaneous pressure headaches; we'll have more data on that later. Rachal and I like my day job being as close as it is (.7 miles). We like it so much that I won't be going on interviews for any more full-time jobs across town, but will continue drumming up such freelance work as I can do in my off-hours, because my almost full-time gig doesn't quite pay as much as I'd like. In other news, my mother's second knee replacement seems to have gone well. As with the first, she's ahead of the rehabilitation curve, and can walk for short periods without any crutch or cane support (!). Also, the more-than-possible election of Barack Obama won't be (I'm certain) the nightmare scenario Mom seems to think it'll be, so that's good news of a sort. I have no intention of bringing this point up to her, for fear it'll sound like gloating, but shall continue sending her the occasional Snopes correction to her chain-letter e-mails. There was a time when I'd have been happy to see either party's candidate in the White House, but the more I hear about Sen. McCain's temper, the less I want him anywhere near the big red button. (Parenthetically, I'm quite pleased with recent political developments here in the USA. A year ago, I was pretty certain that the while the first non-white-guy major-party candidate for President would knock the door ajar, they wouldn't be able to squeeze through it until some later election cycle. I'd love to see President Obama prove me wrong). | | Monday, October 6th, 2008 | | 8:51 pm |
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